SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court says a sequence of 26 poses and two breathing exercises used in hot yoga classes is not entitled to copyright protection. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Sure, DC Comics can copyright the Batmobile. However, Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, infamous for his hot yoga, cannot copyright his popular 26-posture sequence that also contains two breathing exercises ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Bikram yogis are fiercely committed to their practice. For many Bikram practitioners, no other yoga class will suffice. That’s because ...

(CN) - Indian yoga guru Bikram Choudhury cannot copyright a sequence of 26 yoga poses and breathing exercises that he has been offering since 1971, a federal judge ruled. In 1994, over 20 years after ...

We must decide whether a sequence of twenty-six yoga poses and two breathing exercises developed by Bikram Choudhury and described in his 1979 book, Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class, is entitled to ...